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"Sweet Good thing Patti’s car is a stick shift That reed Jay’s car was a clunker It made Patti’s old sedan look mint

I slammed my locker and we let ourselves be herded by the crowd to our classes When Jay wasn’t looking, I discreetly reached out to touch the white cloud in front of o to that end-of-the-year party next Friday?" I asked hioing the opposite direction A girl froave Jay a flirty look as we passed He stared over his shoulder at her before returning to our conversation

"The one at Gene’s? You really want to?"

"Yeah, I think so," I said "If Patti will let me"

We were at my class now Jay hitched his thumbs under the straps of the backpack on his shoulders

"Listen" He hesitated "Just watch out for Scott, okay?"

Huh?

"Wait a sec," I said "How can you get all excited about someone like Kaidan Rowe, but warn me about someone like Scott McCallister?"

Jay looked down and scuffed the floor with the toe of his tennis shoe,it squeak

"You don’t hear hiuys"

"Oh" I pondered this "Does he say things about me?"

"No, not you You think I’d let him do that?" He pulled his eyes away fro"

I wondered whether Jay was jealous of Scott--not over ain, so was Jay in a different way I’d never sensed jealousy frorayish brown of worry

"I’ll be careful," I proo"

"All right, all right," he said "We’ll go"

He leftdown the hall to his class before the tardy bell His white cloud trailed close behind hi at the roo to take soned group work I had this class with Gene, so I decided to take advantage of theplaces